Vapors

Radio, TV, and even the press
Say: What's the meanin' of V-A-P-O-R-S?
The meanin' of this word without no doubt
Means nobody wants to be there when you're down and out
Once you're established and got a lot of money
Everybody wanna be your buddy and honey
Like tall buildings they call skyscrapers
Kif-a, Kif-a, Kif-a, Kif-a, Kif-a, Kif-a

Can you feel it, nothin' can save ya
For this is the season of catchin' the vapors
And since I got time, what I'm gonna do
Is tell you how they spreaded throughout my crew
Well you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records
Make the Music: Nobody beats the Biz, well, check it
Back in the dayss before this began
He used to try to talk to this girl name Fran
The type of female with fly Gucci wear
With big truck jewelry and extensions in her hair
When Swan tried to kick it, she always fessed
Talkin' about nigga please, you work for UPS
Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer
My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her
But now he trucks gold and wear fly Bally boots
Rough leather fashion and tough silk suits
Now she stop frontin' and wants to speak and
Be comin' to all the shows every single weekend
To get his beeper number, she'd be beggin' please
Dyin' for the day to get skeezed

She caught the vapors
She caught the vapors
She caught the vapors
She caught the vapors

I got another partner that's calm and plain
He goes by the name of the Big Daddy Kane
A mellow type of fellow that's laid back
Back in the days he was nothin' like that
I remember when he used to fight every day
What grown-ups would tell him he would never obey
He wore his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied
And a rasta-type Kangol tilted to the side
Around his neighborhood people treated him bad
And said he was the worst thing his moms ever had
They said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum
Or either in jail, or someone would shoot him
But now he's grown up, to their surprise
Big Daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide
Now the same people that didn't like him as a child
Be sayin' can I borrow a dollar, ooh, you're a star now

They caught the vapors
They caught the vapors
They caught the vapors
They caught the vapors

Now I got a cousin by the name of Vaughan Lee
Better known to y'all as Cutmaster Cool V
He cuts, scratch, transform with finesse
(Imitates cuts and scratches) and all that mess
Well I remember when he first started to rock
And tried to get this job in a record shop
He was in it to win it but the boss fronted
Said: Sorry Mister lee, but there's no help wanted
Now my 'cause Vaughan still tried on and on and on
Till the like break of dawn
To put this J-O-B in effect
But they'd look right past him and be like: Next
Now for the year of '88
Cool V is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight
He walks into the same record shop as before
And the boss be like: Vaughan, welcome to my store
Offerin' him a job but nah, he don't want it
Damn, it feels good to see people up on it
'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't
Now guess what they caught from my cousin?
The vapors

They caught the vapors
They caught the vapors
They caught the vapors
They caught the vapors

(Guess they gonna talk about me and check it out)

Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark
I had to work for mine to put your body in park
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be down
With a lot of MC-DJ'ing crews in town
So in school on Nobel Street, I say can I be down, champ?
They said no and treated me like a wet food stamp
After gettin' rejected I was very depressed
Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest
When I used to come to parties they'd make me pay
I would have to beg to get on the mic and rap that day
I was never into girls, I was just into my music
They acted like I wanted to keep it instead of trying to use it
But now things switched, without belief
Yo, Biz, do you remember me from Noble Street, chief?
We used to be down back in the days
It happens all the time and never cease to amaze

They caught the vapors, yo
They caught the vapors, does it?
They caught the vapors
(Yo, I'm ready to turn off the party, this is a true story)
They caught the vapors

And you know, you know, you know, you know
You know, you know, you know
They're called the vapors
You know I'm not joking (not joking, joking, joking)
They're called the vapors
Now my name, my name is Biz Markie

You know Big Daddy can't get they smart
And my partner Domestic Movie
And I can't forget the original, my manager
Original flood top, no flood top with jokes
And Mister magic Red Alert, just to chill out
Everybody else and everybody out there
Brooklyn Queens in my heart
I can't forget all the girls out there giving their coochie
I can't forget the original, Tradoni and everybody else
And, uh, everybody out there
Called the vapors
I am the originator of the vapor
The legible kid
Ah, ah, I quit
Urgh, huh-urgh
The girls with the under-arm holder
And then after that, I'll release my album called
Thick and Boldness